In re the Marriage of Adams

The parties were divorced in Oregon in 1979, and custody of their now ten-year-old daughter was awarded to mother, who lives in Los Angeles, subject to visitation by father in Oregon for six weeks every summer and other reasonable visitation in Los Angeles, on two-weeks notice to mother. After the 1980 summer visitation, mother sought to terminate father’s visitation rights, claiming that because the child reacted so adversely to the visit, no further visitation should be allowed. Father responded with a motion for change of custody on the ground that the mother was attempting to alienate the…